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Finding Evidence on the Web Through HEAL-WA: Only a Click Away
Seattle Nursing Research Workshop
January 11, 2010 Janet G Schnall, MS, AHIP Information Management Librarian Health Sciences Libraries University of Washington, Seattle, WA [email protected]
Amy L Harper, MLIS Information Management Librarian Harborview Medical Center University of Washington, Seattle, WA [email protected]
Objectives
• Describe how to access HEAL-WA, the evidence-based website for Washington State nurses
• Define evidence-based practice and what makes good evidence
• Identify e-resources on HEAL-WA to use for research and evidence-based nursing practice
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What is evidence-based medicine?
• Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
• The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating
individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.
Sackett DL et al. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996 Jan 13; 312
(7023): 71-2.
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Evidence-Based Medicine
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What makes good evidence?
• Based on scientific research
• RCT
• Systematic review
• Meta-analysis
• Clinical guidelines
• Expert opinion
• Consensus
• Because it’s been done this way for 100 years
Good Shoddy
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EBP Implications for Nursing
• Are U.S. nurses ready for evidence-based practice?
– Many don’t understand or value research
– Many have little of no training to help find evidence on which to base their practice
– Pravikoff DS, Tanner AB, Pierce ST. Readiness of U.S. nurses for evidence-based practice. American Journal of Nursing 2005 Sep;105(9):
40-52.
• Failure to use evidence results in lower quality, less effective and more expensive care. – Berwick DM. Disseminating innovations in health care. JAMA 2003 Apr
16;289(15):1969-75.
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Levels and Grades of Evidence
REPROLINE, Johns Hopkins University www.reproline.jhu.edu 7
Searching for Evidence Categories
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Where can you find evidence only one click away?
heal-wa.org
• Began January 2009
• Website offering online access to a collection of health information resources
• Who has access? selected health care providers in Washington YES, NURSES !
• Funded by: license fees
• Its mission: to provide evidence-based information to support patient care
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What is included in HEAL-WA?
• Resources: electronic databases, online texts, and
e-journals
• Includes information resources specific to nurses, such as CINAHL and the Nursing Reference Center
• Other excellent resources: MEDLINE, DynaMed, Cochrane, Natural Standard
• Gives practitioners access to timely, evidence-based answers to patient care Q’s
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How do I access HEAL-WA?
• Site address: heal-wa.org
• Use the “Getting Started” links to set up your UW NetID and password
– You will need your RN license number in order to set up your UW NetID (even if you hold an advanced practice license)
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heal-wa.org
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Registered Nurse
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ARNP
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Search for the Best Evidence to
answer the Question
Search Databases Efficiently for Research Journal
Articles
• Primary literature: MEDLINE/PubMed or CINAHL
References to original journal articles on a topic
– Some with full-text links
– Most with abstracts
• You will see same interface when searching MEDLINE or CINAHL (or Cochrane) on HEAL-WA
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CINAHL or [CINAHL Plus]
• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
• Provides coverage from 1982 [1937] to date, of nursing and 17 allied health disciplines literature
• 1700+ [3800+] journals indexed including virtually all English-language nursing journals
• Can easily search for Research articles
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CINAHL Search Screen
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CINAHL Publication Type Limits
• Clinical trial
• Critical path
• Practice guidelines
• Research
• Standards
• Systematic review
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CINAHL Results
link to full text
link to full text 21
healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/cinahlplus
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MEDLINE [on HEAL-WA] or PubMed
• MEDLINE (1940’s+) is included on PubMed
• Indexes 5,000 biomedical journals
• Covers all aspects of biosciences and healthcare
• 75%-80% of citations have abstracts
• Updated 5x/week
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2 MEDLINE/PubMed Strategies for Finding Evidence-Based Citations
1. Use Publication Type limits
– Randomized Controlled Trial
– Meta-Analysis
– Practice Guideline
– Clinical Trial
– Consensus Development Conference
2. Use Clinical Queries
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MEDLINE Search Screen
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Can easily limit your search to:
Age groups
Human or Animal studies
Language
Research or Review articles
Subsets, such as Core Clinical Journals or
CAM or Nursing Journals
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wound healing diabetic foot hyperbaric oxygenation
Strategy #1 on PubMed:
Limit to RCTs under Type of Article
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#2 Strategy: Clinical Queries
Link found on Adv Search screen
wound healing diabetic foot
wound healing diabetic foot 30
Try
healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/pubmed
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CINAHL vs MEDLINE/PubMed
CINAHL • Coverage: 1982+ • Indexes 1700 journals • Focuses on nursing and allied
health literature • CINAHL Thesaurus with more
nursing terms • Has peer-reviewed limit • Includes cited references at end
of many refs
MEDLINE • Coverage: late 1940’s+
• Indexes 5000 journals
• Focuses on biomedical literature
• Uses MeSH as its controlled vocabulary
• No peer-reviewed limit
• No cited references
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Locating E-Journals
• Check with your library for access to full-text e-journals
• For UW Affiliates: use the Proxy service to access full-text e-journals from off-campus
healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/connect
• Use HEAL-WA
– Includes CINAHL and MEDLINE links to full-text articles
– A-Z Journals: 2,600 full-text journals
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Journals A-Z 2,600 full-text health-related journals
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Information Overload!
• 2 million articles published in biomedical journals each year
• considering everything of potential biomedical importance would require perusing about 6,000 articles per day…
• If you only read 2 articles a day, at the end of year you would be 60 centuries behind.
Lundberg GD. Perspective from the editor of JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1992 Apr;80(2):110-4.
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Email Alerts for Keeping Current
• Deliver current citations into your email
• Based on a search strategy you create
• In most cases, abstracts of the articles are provided
• May provide links to full-text articles
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Alerting Services healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/alerts.html
Alert Service Database Coverage RSS
My NCBI PubMed yes
Alerts (EBSCO)
[on HEAL-WA]
MEDLINE
CINAHL Plus yes
ScienceDirect
Search Elsevier Journals yes
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PubMed: My NCBI Your personal space on the NLM computer
system for:
•Storing search strategies,
•Storing references, or
•Creating email alerts
help:healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/myncbi.html
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Search for Evidence Summaries
• DynaMed [on HEAL-WA] – Evidence-based clinical resource providing summaries of
3000+ diseases and conditions
• Nursing Reference Center [on HEAL-WA] – Comprehensive point-of-care resource for nurses that
includes Evidence-based Care Sheets
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DynaMed [on HEAL-WA]
• Provides summaries of the best evidence for over 3,000 clinical topics
• Can quickly browse and find key recommendations
• Updated daily
• Links out to full-text articles HEAL-WA has access to
• Download available for PDA and iPhones
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DynaMed
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DynaMed
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Nursing Reference Center [on HEAL-WA]
• Evidence-based summaries
– Diseases & Conditions
– Evidence-based Care Sheets
– Quick Lessons
– Information about drugs and medicationsa
– Skills & Procedures
– Patient Education
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On HEAL-WA site
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Nursing Reference Center Evidence-based care sheet
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Nursing Reference Center
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Patient Education
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• National Guideline Clearinghouse
guideline.gov
• PubMed/MEDLINE
• CINAHL/CINAHL Plus
Search for Evidence Guidelines Resources
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guideline.gov
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Guideline Summary
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Searching for Practice Guidelines in CINAHL and MEDLINE/PubMed
• In CINAHL: Limit to Practice Guidelines as a Publication Type
• In MEDLINE/PubMed: Limit to
Practice Guideline under Type of Article
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Special Meta-Search Engines that find evidence sites
TRIP
tripdatabase.com
SUMSearch
sumsearch.uthscsa.edu
SUMSearch
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TRIP Database tripdatabase.com
• Meta-search engine
• Performs a simple search of more than
75 databases
• Finds evidence-based resources
• Searches Cochrane, National Guideline Clearinghouse, Bandolier, etc.
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TRIP search: prevention of pressure ulcers
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SUMSearch sumsearch.uthscsa.edu
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Systematic Review/Meta-Analyses Resources
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
• PubMed/MEDLINE Systematic Reviews
• CINAHL/CINAHL Plus
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A Systematic review: is a literature review focused on
a single question which tries to identify, appraise,
select and synthesize all high quality research
evidence relevant to that question.
Meta-analyses: are systematic reviews that
combine the results of several studies using
quantitative statistics.
Systematic Reviews vs Meta-Analyses
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Widely regarded as the “gold standard” of evidence-based information
• Extensive systematic reviews and complex synthesis
• Very focused, specific questions
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www.cochrane.org
pressure ulcers beds
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Finding Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in PubMed/MEDLINE and CINAHL
• In CINAHL:
– Refine search to Publication Type:
Systematic Reviews
– Search for Meta Analysis as a Subject Heading
• In PubMed/MEDLINE:
– Select Systematic Reviews in Clinical Queries section
– Limit to Meta-analysis as Publication/Type of Article
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Searching for Evidence Categories
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Search for Evidence in Drug and Natural Medicines Databases
• AHFS Drug Information [on HEAL-WA]
• Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses [on HEAL-WA]
• Natural Standard [on HEAL-WA]
--Evidence-based information on CAM, including supplements, herbs,
acupuncture, massage, etc.
-Also available partially through MedlinePlus
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database www.naturaldatabase.com
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AHFS Drug Information [on HEAL-WA]
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Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
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Natural Standard [on HEAL-WA]
Professional reading level
12th grade reading level
Patient handout 5th grade
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Aloe
Natural Standard
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Drugs, Supplements & Herbal Information page www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Adapted from Natural Standard
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105 Herbs and Supplements Monographs in English & Spanish
Peppermint oil
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MedlinePlus medlineplus.gov
• #1 SOURCE for basic quality consumer/patient
information
• Includes drug information
• Medical Encyclopedia – full-text with illustrations
• Spanish version
• Preformulated PubMed searches
• Interactive tutorials
• Current health news
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Health topics
(today):
800 English
700 Spanish
3 drug and
herbal
databases:
approx 1700
monographs
ADAM.com
encyclopedia:
approx 4000
monographs
Health news:
Approx 15-20
new stories
added per day
Directories:
Over 100 directories covering
doctors, hospitals, clinics
and libraries.
Interactive tutorials:
165 total
NIH-
Seniorhealth
43 topics
OR-Live
surgery
videos:
73 Announcement listservs:
11 daily & weekly
MedlinePlus Content ClinicalTrials
links on
display:
640 (today)
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MedlinePlus medlineplus.gov
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Search eBooks • UpToDate
Concise comprehensive uptodate reviews of clinical topics in multiple specialties
www.uptodate.com
• HEAL-WA e-Books
• HealthLinks eBooks page
1400+ e-Texts
healthlinks.washington.edu/textbooks
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UpToDate
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Search e-books on HEAL-WA: wound healing
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Navigate the Web Beyond Basic Google To Find Evidence?
• Size of the Web
• Lack of control or review
• Lack of quality standards
Navigation Difficulties:
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Google Scholar scholar.google.com
• Searches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and technical reports
• From academic publishers, professional societies, universities, etc. as well as scholarly articles on the web
• "Cited by" link identifies # that have cited the original • Access to full-text only available with subscription • Links to full-text articles the UW or others subscribes to • Caution: Not a reliable sole source for searching
scholarly literature
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Must Evaluate Web Resources: Evaluation Strategies
• Evaluate using Criteria for Evaluating Web
Resources
• Determine the type of site by analyzing
Web Site Addresses
• A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health
Information on the Web
www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html
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Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/navigating/criteria.pdf
• Authority
• Accuracy
• Objectivity
• Currency
• Coverage
• Design
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Analyze the Website Address: URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
• edu
• org
• com
• gov
• net
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/child.htm
sub directory
name of host computer
how information
is transmitted
filename
The url includes the name of the host computer which can
indicate the purpose of the website.
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Final Thoughts
• Contact Your Ultimate Search Engine… a librarian!
• Remember key resources:
– PubMed/MEDLINE and CINAHL
– DynaMed, Cochrane, Natural Standard
– Google Scholar and Nursing Reference Center
• And HEAL-WA!
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For more information…
• Affiliated with the UW: contact the nursing library liaison:
Janet G Schnall, MS,AHIP 206.543.7474 [email protected]
• At HMC, contact the HMC librarian: Amy Harper, MLIS 206.604.9876 [email protected]
• Or, contact your institution’s librarian
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Finding Evidence on the Web Through HEAL-WA: Only a Click Away
PowerPoint presentation located: healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/liaisons/schnall/hmc2010.ppt